Germany must launch full inquiry into Turkmen funds in German banks
Global Witness calls on the German government to
launch a full inquiry into accounts held in German banks by the Central Asian
dictatorship of Turkmenistan,
because of unanswered questions about what the money was used for.
Last week, Turkmenistan's new President
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov raised new questions about the role of German banks
when he called for the abolition and audit of ‘the International Fund of
Saparmurat Niyazov'. The Associated Press
reported that the fund, set up in 1993, is ‘managed by German banks'.